Quotes About Self

Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self, the extent to which a life can be lived according to a philosophical system, or the relation between acts and emotions. That is not their job – unless they are writing the Life of a philosopher. But biography is bound to reflect changing and conflicting concepts about

Nothing more private than pain. It can only involve one. But who? Who is "I" in "I hurt"? The one who inflicts the pain or the one who suffers it? And does "hurt" refer to the inflicting or the suffering?

Who is "I" in "I hurt"? The one who inflicts the pain or the one who suffers it? And does "hurt" refer to the inflicting or the suffering?

Imagine the relief of finding out that one is not the one one thought one was

Whatever the past may have handed on to us, it is up to each one of us to chisel our present out of the shapeless block of the future.

This, she told herself, was the beginning of madness. The mind becoming the flesh for its own teeth.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

Heute geht es mir besser, ich bin fast ein Mensch.

Nothing had anything to do with me. I was locked up inside myself and evicted from myself. I didn't belong to them and I was missing me.

And I'm different without you. You're the only one who thinks you're never different.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

A star's shine comes from the inside. Its there inside you now,you just have to beileve in yourself.

Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I?

When she lets go of me I feel that I don't need to offer to become a different person, it has happened already.

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

He is tired of trying to wake up different. . . He is what the mirror makes, when it assembles him each day. . . Unless you have a better idea?

I was (an am) unsure about how I am related to my old self, or to myself from year to year. The hormonal profile of an individual determines much of the manifest personality. If you skew the endocrine system,you loose the pathways to the self. When endocrine patterns change it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.

Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature.

The mind is its own best torturer.

When you are so unhappy you don't know how to accomplish anything, then to have control over your body becomes an extreme accomplishment. You make of your body your very own kingdom where you are the tyrant, the absolute dictator.